THE "5+2" NEGOTIATIONS MODEL FOR THE SOLVING OF THE TRANSNISTRIAN CONFLICT

The involvement of Berlin and of the German diplomacy strengthened the solving of the transnistrian conflict. For this, the German diplomacy organised some informal secret meetings in Germany, between important representatives from Chisinau and Tiraspol. Berlin, of course, took advantage and tried to impose their point of view at these meetings. The strengthening of the relations with the EU kept on being the main element of the Moldavian external affairs; a series of important steps were taken, in getting closer to the EU. The closing of the associative agreement and its initialling at the summit for the eastern partnership in Vilnius brought Moldavia a legal frame, according to the communitarian aquis. Whatever the result of the Ukrainian conflict -- the victory of Putin's Russia/democratic forces, or the breaking of the country as result of an internal conflict -- it will affect Moldavia.